floret

Example Sentences

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He did exactly that one February day when he spied a single, backlit floret of a faded Hydrangea paniculata that was still hanging on.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2022

The direct application of heat to the outside of each floret creates an actual chemical change, as the sugars and amino acids inside the vegetable rearrange themselves.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

It’s homely but exceptional, and I’ll fight anyone at the table for the last floret.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2018

The student, Trevon Grimes, had a temple-fade haircut so bushy on top that classmates compared his head to a broccoli floret.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

The rich purple of the heather had gone, and was succeeded by dull brown—sometimes almost grey—each little floret of the ling, as Ruskin said, folding itself into a cross as it was dying.

From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Buckland, A. R. (Augustus Robert)